[olug] Re: Will Internet Partitions Rise?

[Rob Townley]

Many offices could not afford the hundreds if not thousands per month
for redundant high speed internet connectivity.  The only practical
solution for many small businesses would be if they coshare their
broadband with a neighbor that has a competing isp, so neither has to
pay for more than one isp.  For instance, one tenant uses Cox and the
other uses Qwest.  In some instances, even if the server you were
trying to reach had multiple paths, it was not reachable.

On 10/9/05, Nick Veys <psylence519 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mission critical stuff should never be run through a single source
> anyway.  Any well planned system would survive this.  Good DNS hosts
> as a small example usually have a couple different providers and
> spread themselves geographically as well as provider-ally.
>
> On 10/7/05, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Two recent events show the human reasons causing fragmentation of the
> > internet, the LVLT vs Cogent dispute and control over the root name
> servers.
> > For now, i will ignore the root DNS server dispute because i know very
> > little about it and is not a primary concern. However, it seems arbitrary
> > fragmentation generated by the corporate players will only increase, but
> > since i do not know anything about how Tier 1 ISPs operate, it is only a
> > guess. My question is, will this temporary disconnect change how
> confidently
> > you advise customers who need mission critical internet access?
> >   The following Slashdot article which more often than not paints LVLT as
> > responsible for disconnecting an untold number of Cogent Communications
> > customers:
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/07/147224.shtml?tid=95&tid=187&tid=230
> >  http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/68251
> >  p.s. My LVLT stock will only sink lower.
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